Crossword-Solution: UNDERSTUDIES
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| Broadway backups | 1 answer |
| Ones who follow the leads? | 1 answer |
| Waiters in the wings | 1 answer |
| They don't start | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAECEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNDERSTUDIES (5)
For his _human comedy_ he often lacked actors, and had to resign himself frequently to making the understudies play.
Nowadays proceedings in Parliament seem to be limited to a very occasional solo from the one star-performer, the rest of the time being occupied by uninteresting interludes by his understudies, all of which may serve to explain the decline in public interest.
Beamish had not tolerated understudies: none but the lowliest jobs, such as raisin-stoning or potato-peeling, had fallen to the three girls' share: and in face of her first fowl Polly stood helpless and dismayed.
Hours of Greek history were in it, and long rows of tombs and temples--the Parthenon of gods and goddesses, with a few outlying scores of heroes and understudies.
Burbage was the natural man for Hamlet and Henry VIII; but it is not unusual for actors to have “understudies.” The stage is notoriously tenacious of such traditions.
Quotes with UNDERSTUDIES (1)
My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We've had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).